Medical Massage is a specialized therapeutic massage and manual therapy designed to treat specific pain conditions as determined by our professional physical therapists.

Medical massage is delivered to an anatomical region of the patient’s body based upon soft tissue and joint examination findings.

Clinical massage, often prescribed for injuries and conditions of pain, is a unique technique that involves relaxing the muscles, stretching the surrounding fascia, break up tight adhesions and allows the body to be freed of spasm and pain. Thus, it can increase flexibility in movement and prevent recurrence of an injury.

This adds a new dimension to soft tissue manipulation as well as providing the advantages of “normal” sports massage in a physiotherapy clinic or a relaxing massage in a spa.

Medical massage is useful in addressing conditions such as:

• Generalized Body Aches and Pains
• Neck Ache and Pains
• Back Aches and Pain
• Pain associated with postural imbalances
• Muscle Cramps
• Muscle Tightness/ Joint stiffness
• General fatigue
• Migraines/headaches
• Repetitive use injuries such as Tennis elbow, Golfer’s elbow
• Pain associated with bulged or injured spinal discs
• Fibromyalgia
• Sports Injuries

Treatment plans involve several progressive massage steps or stages of manual therapy treatment whose goal is to correct abnormal conditions affecting the muscle-skeletal system while reducing or eliminating pain.

Some of the best clinically proven medical massage techniques to stop pain are:

Muscle Energy Technique

This technique needs patient participation to contract the tight, weak muscles without moving the involved joint, thus helps to gain motion that is limited by restrictions of the neuromuscular structures.

Myofascial Release

This method includes manual massage for stretching the fascia and releasing the bonds between fascia, integument, muscles and bones. It is a form of soft tissue therapy intended for pain relief, increasing range of motion and balancing the body. The fascia is manipulated, directly or indirectly, supposedly to allow the connective tissue fibers to reorganize themselves in a more flexible, functional fashion.

Strain Counterstrain

This is a very gentle form of treatment that can be used on almost any patient. The basis of this technique is the location of tender points, which are painful areas in myofascial structures. It is based upon identifying tender points and positioning the patient at a point of ease so that the tenderness is relieved.

Joint/ Spinal Mobilisation

This is a special type of passive movement that stretches the surrounding tissue of a skeletal joint and the joint itself. This directly targets the synovial joint which is the most movable type of joint in our body but it is commonly injured. This method provides a therapeutic effect to musculoskeletal problems.

Joint/ Spine Manipulation

This method is similar to joint or spine mobilization that gives a therapeutic effect. However, these kind of passive movements of the synovial joints have other effects other than stretching because it puts the skeletal joint back to its normal alignment and reduces the pressure inside it. It is usually accompanied by an audible click sound.

 

Precise identification of the underlying problem, together with selecting the most appropriate medical massage technique, is the key to a much more effective, and long lasting result.

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